The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 6) Book

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by: Anne Rice

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Average Rating: Rating: - An Anne Rice Fan who has tried not to be too critical Having read the entire Vampire Armand book standing up in a bookstore for hours, I'll just have to say that the book was not worth the pain I had from all those hours of standing. I mean I used to love Armand the way Lestat saw him; a young vampire boy who had the face of a choirboy, so innocent and yet so ethereal. But Rice has destoryed the innocence of Armand by letting him annouce to the whole world that he is gay/bi.Not that I have anything againest gays but having painted Armand previously in such angelic light, it is hard to stomach that he is just another impressionable vampire, so shallowly concerned with the surface beauty of things just like Lestat was. However, even if Rice's sense of preceptive of Armand has changed here, her ingenious pace of storytelling has not deserted her yet. Just as I have read many of the reviews, the reason why most of the reviewers read her books is simply because of her reputation to write the most vivid stories. Her use of imagery has not failed her yet and she has produced another Anne Rice signature novel (which did not quite make the standards in Memnoch and Violin) Au contaire to give the woman credit, she does display some new ideas in the book which did not quite meet up with the taste of everyone. But afterall she is Anne Rice and even if her preceptive of the Vampiric World changes, one thing does not and that will always be her sense of asthetics which are so severely displayed in the book and I thought she had lost when she wrote Memnoch. In the end, I'll still have to admit that I am a true Anne Rice fan even if she has sorely disappointed in the Vampire Armand.Just don't attempt a book about David in this current frame of mind, it is just not worth it and David is first and foremost a Man of the scientific age. Rating: - original & thought provoking I read "Interview" 2 yrs ago, saw the movie & was fascinated with Armand's character. This book filled in all the gaps in Armand's personality, which the other Chronicles revealed here & there. The despair & abuse he suffered as a mortal boy explained his need for love from Lestat (TVL), his love-hate relationship with his Orthodox religion (Memnoch), his highly seductive courtship of Louis (IWV) from the development of his skills in summoning his victims. The beautiful May-December love affair between him & Marius, the only vampire making that ws made "out of love". I thought Louis was complex but Armand takes first place. Anne Rice handled his fall from his religious beliefs so well, (the church scenes in the Byzantine chapel & when Marius "makes" him, the entire flashback of his mortal life in Russia) and the florid fifteenth-century language she used added to the entire Renaissance feel of the book. A beautiful, dark and sensual story...I'm glad he finally found someone who loves him just for himself (Sybelle) Anne really dug deep into herself to plumb the questions of religious faith & all the dark despair of Armand's and her own heart. Now, I wait for "Blood & Gold" Marius' story! Rating: - Wonderfully written, beautifully involved narratives. The first Anne Rice novel I read was Interview With the Vampire and it was one of the best books that I've ever read. Rice is a poet. Her highly involved and detailed narratives give the reader staggering visuals of the characters and their environments. Reading The Vampire Armand, one is transported back in time through many centuries. You experience the life, the culture and the loves that her characters experience. The emotions transmitted are beautifully powerful. You are there with Armand. There with him when he looses hope, with him when he falls in love. The lives of Rice's characters, from this book and from others in the Vampire Chronicles are masterfuly interwoven, you begin to doubt at times that you are reading fiction. I've read some of the reviews for this book and found that some people were turned off by the sensuality that Rice put into her books. I have to admit, you must be an open-minded person to enjoy her works(as well as any other type of art). If you like to be swept away into another world, another time, if you want to fall in love with a book and it characters, The Vampire Armand, as well as all the books in the Vampire Chronicles are some of the best books you'll ever read.

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